Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)…

What you see via the UI isn’t “all that exists”. Unlike Reddit, where everything is a black box, there are a lot more eyeballs who can see “under the hood”. Any instance admin, proper or rogue, gets a ton of information that users won’t normally see. The attached example demonstrates that while users will only see upvote/downvote tallies, admins can see who actually performed those actions.

Edit: To clarify, not just YOUR instance admin gets this info. This is ANY instance admin across the Fediverse.

  • BitOneZero @ .world@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Your home instance will act as a proxy and only they have access to your email and IP address.

    Your home image typically doesn’t proxy image loading, those are hotlinked to the Lemmy server that the image was uploaded to. So your IP address and browser string are going to other Lemmy servers.

    • azuth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      The posts just contain a URL which doesn’t include the uploader’s ip address or their browser string.

      • BitOneZero @ .world@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        When the browser loads that URL, hotlinked image, that server has to have your IP address to return the results. Just browsing posts those images are being loaded.

        • azuth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Of course. They dont get any info to associate your IP with your lemmy account. You could even not have a lemmy account at all.

        • azuth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Of course. They dont get any info to associate your IP with your lemmy account. You could even not have a lemmy account at all.